Cemetery PV002 in Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission Database. The record book indicates that this Catholic cemetery opened April 22, 1844. The first burial was Frederick Conlon who died at the Cranston Print Works. There were 103 interments in 1844, 155 in 1845, 144 in 1846 and 213 in 1847. from 1844-1889 there were 21,136 interments. Only a small fraction of these have gravestones. This cemetery is 10 acres. Many early Irish gravestones.